We care quite a bit about book covers here at The Millions, hence our recentrounds of cover-judging. To honor the hundredth anniversary of Tolstoy's death, Flavorwirehas compiled a selection of Anna Karenina's many covers, and opportunities for judgement abound.

For a female war photographer and novelist who’s dealt with pink covers on her books, male colleagues who dismiss the Orange Prize and a publisher who titles her book Shutterbabe, it’s pretty rich to hear that our world is apparently “post-feminist.”

There are many possible answers to the question “where do you write?”, but one of the strangest, and most unexpected, has to be “I don’t know.” At The Rumpus, Brendan Constantineadmits that he doesn’t write in any one place, and that his memory for where he’s written before is “completely unreliable.” We surveyed our own staff a couple years ago to see how they answered the question.

For The New YorkerAlex Rossdescribes the role Nebraska's prairies played in WillaCather's writing, his encounters with Cather people, and how he became one himself. "From this roughshod Europe of the mind, Cather also emerged with a complex understanding of American identity. Her symphonic landscapes are inflected with myriad accents, cultures, personal narratives—all stored away in a prodigious memory. "

A pair of big-name writers have new shorter-form ebook originals out. Stephen King'sGuns is a "pulls-no-punches essay" about gun violence in America, with all proceeds going to Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence. Meanwhile, Richard Russo has a new novella, Nate in Venice.